Jobs at Oxford Quantum Circuits

Lead OQC's external research and collaboration strategy, securing and managing grant-funded programmes and partnerships with universities, industry, and funders. Translate scientific priorities into governed, deliverable programmes, coordinate stakeholders and budgets, manage risks and reporting, and align cross-functional teams to maximize technical and commercial impact.

Design, implement and maintain secure, resilient network infrastructure across cloud, lab and office environments. Build IaC, automate deployments, monitor performance, respond to incidents, strengthen security, and collaborate with stakeholders while mentoring colleagues and improving networking practices.

Manage a portfolio of customer and partner accounts, drive customer satisfaction and retention, monitor success metrics, run customer reviews, maintain HubSpot CRM records, identify expansion opportunities, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and represent OQC at events to inform commercial strategy and product development.

Lead finance transformation and reconciliation work to improve audit readiness and controls. Rebuild audit support, own balance sheet reconciliations, investigate discrepancies, support NetSuite enhancements, data cleansing, system testing and month-end operational finance tasks, while documenting processes and contributing to strategic treasury and ERP projects.

Design and simulate superconducting quantum processors, optimize circuit layouts and readout, maintain QPU design toolchain, analyze experimental data, own research projects, and communicate technical recommendations.

Lead and own complex experimental research on superconducting quantum processors: design, simulate and characterise superconducting components; run cryogenic measurements, calibration and benchmarking; coordinate cryogenic and measurement infrastructure; shape roadmap, mentor engineers, and publish/represent results.

Provide proactive executive and administrative support to the Executive Leadership Team: manage complex diaries, meetings, travel, inboxes, expenses and documentation; prepare presentations and reports; coordinate onboarding and recruitment; build stakeholder relationships; and improve executive support processes in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Provide pragmatic, commercial legal advice across OQC, leading drafting and negotiation of complex commercial and technology agreements, advising on IP, privacy, export controls and regulatory compliance, supporting fundraising and governance, and developing scalable legal processes and templates to enable the business to scale.

Develop, characterise and demonstrate hardware components and subroutines for quantum error correction. Design and run experiments, bring up prototype QPU devices, develop experimental-control software and data-analysis workflows, and build system-level understanding of control electronics, cryogenics and signal delivery. Own R&D projects end-to-end, report findings, and mentor junior engineers.

Lead and grow an RF devices team to design, simulate and standardise passive RF components and scalable RF architectures for superconducting qubit processors. Drive RF simulation infrastructure, integrate RF designs with chip packaging and device physics, manage supplier relationships, and deliver simulation-as-a-service for rapid design screening.

Coordinate end-to-end deployments of quantum computing systems into commercial data centres, managing planning, installation, commissioning, validation, and go-live. Maintain project plans and documentation, liaise with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, vendors and customers, monitor progress, budgets and risks, and travel to support installations and maintenance.

Supervise day-to-day laboratory and workshop operations, ensuring safe, compliant environments. Coordinate equipment procurement, maintenance and suppliers, troubleshoot incidents, support assembly and testing of quantum and scientific equipment, manage stock and budgets, document processes, and deliver health-and-safety training. Occasional travel to deployment sites.

Support design, simulation and characterisation of quantum devices; prepare and calibrate quantum hardware and cryogenic systems; run experiments, analyse data with Python, document findings, and collaborate with senior engineers on research projects.

Monitor live quantum cryogenic systems, triage alerts, provide first-line incident response, develop dashboards and alerting strategies, analyse incidents for root causes, collaborate to improve observability tooling, document processes, and automate operational responses to maximise uptime and reliability.

Support global deployment, commissioning and operation of quantum computing systems in commercial data centres. Develop SOPs, documentation and training, provide remote and on-site technical support, drive preventive and corrective maintenance, capture lessons learned, and collaborate with engineering and data centre partners to improve reliability, serviceability and compliance.

Develop and validate quantum control methods to improve gate fidelity and stability. Design and optimise pulse shapes, characterise gate error mechanisms, build experimental pipelines and benchmarks, define calibration requirements, evaluate devices, and transfer techniques into production software and operational workflows.

Develop low-latency, production-grade embedded software and device drivers (C/C++/Rust) with Python bindings; build automated tests and CI/CD gates; translate scientific requirements into firmware, operate hardware-in-the-loop test environments, collaborate with FPGA and compiler teams, and diagnose software on experimental quantum hardware.

As a Senior RF Engineer at OQC, you'll design RF systems for quantum computing, lead development, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to optimize performance.

As a Senior FPGA Engineer, you'll design and deliver precision control hardware for quantum computing, resolving complex technical challenges across FPGA architecture and real-time signal processing, while mentoring junior engineers.

The FPGA Engineer will design, prototype, and implement FPGA-based hardware for quantum computing, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and improving system performance.